Think of what is and don’t let what might have been distract you.
– Robin Hobb
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- Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him. – JI Packer
- A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He’d probably have to kill her soon. – Robin Hobb
- I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry. – Robin Hobb
- History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. – Robin Hobb
- I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world. – Robin Hobb
- Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces. – Robin Hobb
- He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder. – Robin Hobb
- Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. – Robin Hobb
- There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it. – Robin Hobb
- Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead? – Robin Hobb
- And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. ‘You are so stupid. – Robin Hobb
- Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it? – Robin Hobb
- Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back. – Robin Hobb
- Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? – Robin Hobb
- Isn’t it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest. – Robin Hobb
- Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. – Robin Hobb
- There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power. – Robin Hobb
- One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one’s actions. – Robin Hobb
- That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man’s life. – Robin Hobb
- Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust. – Robin Hobb
- To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group. – Robin Hobb
- The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real. – Robin Hobb
- …You won’t even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you’d be out there with a fork. – Robin Hobb
- As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character. – Robin Hobb
- I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity. – Robin Hobb
- Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates. – Robin Hobb
- Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it. – Robin Hobb
- Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father’s talent for it. – Robin Hobb
- Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey. – Robin Hobb
- It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones. – Robin Hobb
- Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it. – Robin Hobb
- Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning. – Robin Hobb
- The fight isn’t over until you win it…That’s all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. – Robin Hobb